Visitors to Wicksteed Park will be able to learn about science in an informal way this week as Dr Scott Turner from the University of Northampton will be giving a talk as part of British Science Week.

The Science Café was established at Wicksteed Park as its creator Charles Wicksteed was an inventor and a respected successful engineer, and it gives visitors the opportunity to engage in science activities over coffee and cake in an informal and fun environment.

Dr Turner, Associate Professor in Computing and Immersive Technologies, will be talking about Junkbots, which is a project that enables people to build 'robots' out of almost anything.

The free session will take place on Tuesday 14 March from 10:45am until 12pm and visitors can book onto the event by emailing community@wicksteedpark.org

The data was analysed using the software VOSviewer - http://www.vosviewer.com/ free software for visualising networks. Differences in colours represents, the clusters of publications with those authors picked out by the software. The relative size of the circles is the relative number of publications listed; so for the two biggest circles/hubs it relates to 55 and 34 publications in this time period. Some relatively new authors, to the University but not to research, explains some of the 'islands' and the number of publications within it - it only reflects publications whilst at the University of Northampton.

To dig a little deeper, going to look at the two biggest 'hubs' through their NECTAR records, so potentially going …

Taken from: http://www.northampton.ac.uk/news/computer-lecturers-research-helps-improve-the-next-generation-of-technology/
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